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by sprash 4y ago
As somebody who witnessed the whole Microsoft "Helloween Documents" leak at the time I can assure you all kind of psyops are being pulled inside the more or less completely naive FOSS community. The observed practices outlined in
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by sprash 4y ago
Whoever wants to sabotage the Linux Desktop, or more precisely a community developed Linux Desktop. The biggest sponsors of GNOME are IBM and Google. Who knows what their agenda ist.
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> It was often slower Any data on this? I can remember that your typical Cairo backend ran much faster on a PC from 2004 than todays GNOME/Gtk runs on current machines. If performance is your only argument you clearly lose with the
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by sprash 4y ago
> x11 was designed around assumptions that are no longer correct Nothing could be further from the truth. If you use Xrender properly you can make very sophisticated drawing operations that are extremely efficient over the wire and that
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by sprash 4y ago
Still, higher bitrates can give you valuable information of the noise spectrum of your recording chain. This can potentially be useful in post processing. It also gets rid of the need for a dithering step before certain effect chains.
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Sometimes encoding time doesn't matter. Archiving is done once in a lifetime. I encode everything with "--lax -8Vepl32" which takes ages but since it runs as a low priority background task I don't care. Also, you can use
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by sprash 4y ago
Sadly still no support for variable blocksize.
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Who is expecting Wayland support besides Redhat and Collabora? And yes, talking to Wayland directly is extremely cumbersome and unnecessary complex. That's why nobody uses it.
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None? Talking to bare X11 is actually pretty simple.
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Why does it have to be cross platform? At this point Ladybug does not compile on Windows anyways. Also the target audience is probably mostly using Linux.
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by sprash 4y ago
It's great that this Browser is now independently developed from Serenity OS. But I'm not a huge fan of the QT dependency. You might as well use Qt WebEngine Widgets at this point.
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by sprash 4y ago
A more interesting candidate for the ESP32 would be Inferno OS. It's a Desktop OS which doesn't require a MMU and needs about 1MB RAM on startup. As a bonus you get all the benefits of plan 9.
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Those are all made up narratives by random media outlets. From the beginning there was only one true narrative: "Abolish central banks". Because they are at the core designed to enslave humanity. That is why Bitcoin is created. It
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The government collects taxes denominated in USD which is enforced with violence. This is why USD is in demand. As soon as this (in case of income tax even unconstitutional) collection mechanism by force fails the dollar becomes worthless o
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by sprash 4y ago
The "everything bubble" which also affected crpyto was created by central banks with the various QE programs and the relentless money printing. Don't blame crypto for creating a bubble.
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The volatility is generated by the central banks. They were printing money like there is no tomorrow since 2008. Now they are destroying it again with interest rate hikes and balance sheet reduction.
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The real scam are central banks. Bitcoin is an attempt to make them obsolete. But if I were a central bank desperately clinging to power and with the ability to create and destroy money with the press of the button I would make bitcoin seem
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by sprash 4y ago
> It's inefficient to have image assets for every inch of the screen With modern GPUs pushing bitmaps is actually far more efficient than drawing shapes. > it adds more visual noise to parse for the user On the contrary. It gives
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by sprash 4y ago
What would you prefer? CBDC or Bitcoin. One or the other will be the future.
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It was never "announced" at a major apple event though.
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Search: revolutionized, yes. But never was announced anywhere. Gmail: not really, web based freemailers are a dime and a dozen and the only thing Gmail brought to the table was more storage space. Youtube: was neither created not announced
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by sprash 4y ago
You forgot: - The original Macintosh (first viable mouse/window based user interface for consumers) - The first iMac (the end of the "beige box" era of computers) - OS X in general (several new user interface paradigms never
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by sprash 4y ago
Google never announced any consumer products that revolutionized whole industries. Apple did that several times.
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by sprash 4y ago
> Sadly development has died down a little recently Isn't this true for all Wayland projects? There seems to be zero community mindshare.
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by sprash 4y ago
This is exactly what was done on A/UX (an obscure Apple Unix before NEXT). When you open CLI applications in Finder a GUI like this appears. (examples are here: " http://bitsavers.org/pdf/apple/mac/a_
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by sprash 4y ago
This is how Arch Linux originally worked. It technically used SYSV-init but the scripts themselves were organized more like BSD-style rc scripts. Everything could be configured in a single "/etc/rc.config" file. All of t
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by sprash 4y ago
You should not start a startup in Germany at all. It has the highest taxes in the world. As a result 200.000 highly qualified people leave Germany every year. Those people are replaced with unqualified immigrants mostly causing additional c
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by sprash 4y ago
This is a macro phenomenon and will stop soon since the central bank has stopped printing money. Since 2008 major Central Banks are actively buying bonds in droves which companies use to buy back their stock and as a result increase prices
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Does this mean we can now make passive "wireless" keyboards without batteries by simply using a microphone connected to the computer?
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There was "mirasol" which was full color high refresh rate passive display technology. It is unclear to this day why it never made it to market considering that E-Ink is a far inferior product.

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